Sunday’s event will feature local bands, student speakers, school board candidates, and organizing efforts to support LGBTQ youth and oppose books bans.
Jonathan Alexander, who has just stepped down as the children’s and young adult fiction section editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, put together a list of “must-reads” for this summer.
A review of Matthew Dallek’s “Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right.”
Steve Nolan, a 30-year military veteran and 25-year mental health professional, wrote this poem about his experience with bereavement counseling for the U.S. government.
Hopefully the Pulitzer committee’s recognition of the novel will lead others to not only educate themselves about Appalachia, but also participate in the work needed to undo the damage that these drugs have done – and continue to do.
Mercer had described Fonthill as a combination of “the poetry of the past with convenience of the present.”
